{"id":654337,"date":"2025-12-25T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/654337\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T16:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:00:25","slug":"russia-makes-proposal-to-france-over-jailed-ngo-researcher-vinatier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/654337\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia makes \u2018proposal\u2019 to France over jailed NGO researcher Vinatier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Moscow has made an offer to Paris regarding jailed French researcher Laurent Vinatier, who is facing espionage charges that could see him sentenced to 20 years in a Russian prison, the Kremlin said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The surprise public overture comes as both Russia and France have expressed interest in possible talks between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Vinatier, who works for a Swiss conflict mediation NGO and was jailed in June 2024, is serving a three-year sentence for failing to register as a \u201cforeign agent\u201d but faces fresh allegations of spying.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThere were appropriate contacts between our side and the French. Indeed, a proposal was made to the French regarding Vinatier,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Peskov did not provide details. \u201cThe ball is now in France\u2019s court,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Vinatier\u2019s family have rejected the accusations against him, saying he is a victim of tensions between Moscow and Paris over the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moscow has made an offer to Paris regarding jailed French researcher Laurent Vinatier, who is facing espionage charges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[34544,7667,34,2000,299,36,34982,660,200137,2301,1411,200136,332,657,49,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-654337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-afp","9":"tag-dmitry-peskov","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-french","15":"tag-kremlin","16":"tag-laurent-vinatier","17":"tag-moscow","18":"tag-paris","19":"tag-presidents-vladimir-putin","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}